STRATEGY
Operating Strategy
Our approach is to apply our principles of precision scheduled railroading, which means implementing five key principles. It is all about having the right people, at the right place, at the right time, with the right assets, the right objectives, doing the right thing, every time.
Customer Centricity
- Precise organizational and productivity enhancements drive higher customer service
- Operational enhancements increase service reliability and reduce customer costs
Cost Control
- Meaningful cost savings delivered through scheduling and load efficiencies
- Cost savings can be distributed to shareholders or reinvested
Optimizing Asset Utilization
- “Right sizing” the facility and asset base improves productivity and reduces costs
- Invest to achieve critical size that facilitates efficient operations, pricing, cost reduction and interline economic relationships
- Optimized asset utilization levels increase efficiency and reliability as well as increase capital and cash flow
Safe Operations
- Consistently the top priority across the organization
- Zero tolerance culture for major safety infractions
Valuing / Developing Employees
- Consistently the top priority across the organization
- Key contributor to the right people, right place, right time
- Zero tolerance culture for major safety infractions